Ikuyo Nakamichi

Pianist Ikuyo Nakamichi is one of Japan's leading Beethoven specialists, and she has also performed and issued major recordings of Mozart's music. She is an important educator who has devised new ways of approaching classical music and transmitting its traditions. Nakamichi was born on February 13, 1963, in Sendai, in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. She began piano studies as a child with Mitsuko Kinpara but even as a junior high school student traveled to the U.S. for instruction in Michigan from Phyllis Rappaport. Nakamichi attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, stud...